Details - Essai sur l'histoire naturelle du Chili

Essai sur l'histoire naturelle du Chili

Title

Essai sur l'histoire naturelle du Chili

Title Variants

Uniform: Saggio sulla storia naturale del Chili

By

Molina, Giovanni Ignazio, 1740-1829

Gruvel, M.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

A Paris, chez Neé de la Rochelle, libraire, rue du Hurepoix, près du pont Saint-Michel, no. 13, M. DCC. LXXXIX. [1789]

Notes

Translation, by Gruvel, of: Saggio sulla storia naturale del Chili. Bologna, 1782.

Original work in Italian is an extended version of the natural history section of the author's: Compendio della storia geografica, naturale e civile del regno del Chile. Bologna, 1776 (published anonymously)

Edited by Gruvel (footnotes signed: G.)

Text in French; diagnoses of taxa of animals, plants and minerals in Latin.

Signatures: a A-Y (a1 verso blank). Leaf Y1 unsigned, leaves Y2-Y3 signed as: "Y-Yii"

Text divided into four books: "Livre premier. Situation, météores, & température du Chili." (p. [1]-26); "Livre II. Eaux, terres, pierres, sels, bitumes & métaux." (p. 27-92); "Livre troisieme. Herbes, arbustes & arbres du Chili." (p. 93-168); "Livre IV. Vers, insectes, reptiles, poissons, oiseaux, & quadrupedes du Chili." (p. 169-351)

Book IV includes two catalogues: "Tableau méthodique des nouvelles especes décrites dans cet ouvrage, d'après le systême de Linné." (p. 319-339); "Vocabulaire chilien, relativement à l'histoire naturelle." (p. 340-351)

Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800, | 3: 3085.

Backer-Sommervogel | 5: col. 1166 (no. 4)

Streit, R. Bib. missionum, | 3: 1121.

Quérard | 6: p. 185.

Stafleu & Cowan | 6206.